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"The Armstrong 100-ton gun is the largest muzzle-loading artillery piece in English history. Made by the ordnance division of Armstrong Whitworth, a British manufacturing firm, the 17.7-inch gun is also considered to be the first fully automated cannon. Armstrong Whitworth offered the gun to the Royal Navy in 1870, but the navy deemed it too costly and too heavy to be effective in combat. Four years later the company agreed to supply the Italian navy with eight of the guns for service on the sister battleships Duilio and Dandolo. The Royal Navy, alarmed at the possibility that the Italian battleships could outgun its own ships and threaten its key Mediterranean outposts of Gibraltar and Malta, ordered four of the same guns as coastal armaments."
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"The Armstrong 100-ton gun is the largest muzzle-loading artillery piece in English history. Made by the ordnance division of Armstrong Whitworth, a British manufacturing firm, the 17.7-inch gun is also considered to be the first fully automated cannon. Armstrong Whitworth offered the gun to the Royal Navy in 1870, but the navy deemed it too costly and too heavy to be effective in combat. Four years later the company agreed to supply the Italian navy with eight of the guns for service on the sister battleships Duilio and Dandolo. The Royal Navy, alarmed at the possibility that the Italian battleships could outgun its own ships and threaten its key Mediterranean outposts of Gibraltar and Malta, ordered four of the same guns as coastal armaments."
From our friends at the woodpile report
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